Dr Pietari Kaapa

About

I am an Associate Professor in Media and Communications at the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies and course director of the MA Global Media and Communications.

As a specialist in environmental screen media, I work on environmental media production policies and practices as well as on environmental messaging in audiovisual media (especially film and television). I am also interested and have published in the following fields: Chinese cinema, audience studies, documentary, indigenous film, Hollywood and emergent forms of digital media.

I am an editor of Journal of Scandinavian Cinema and a docent (affiliate professor) in film and television studies at the University of Helsinki.

I am the Principle Investigator of the AHRC Network on Global Green Media Production (https://globalgreenmediaproduction.wordpress.com/), and welcome any information/communications on this theme. I also hold an Institute of Advanced Teaching and Learning Fellowship to deliver a student-led Media Policy Laboratory for Warwick, as well as an Institute of Advanced Studies Global Research Priorities Fellowship on a project focusing on Brazilian media and environmental communications.

Email: P.Kaapa@warwick.ac.uk

Phone: +44(0)7948192038

Office hours: Wednesdays 2-4pm

Research

I have published nine books (including five monographs and four edited collections) and edited seven journal special issues focusing on diverse concerns in transnational and ecocritical media studies. These focus on areas such as ecomedia, transnational production and distribution networks, audiences, genre production, cultural policy, and media regulation. Peer reviewed articles have appeared in journals such as Studies in Documentary Film and Film International and book chapters in a wide range of international collections. Topics range from film co-production policy between Hollywood and China to indigenous film practice, from digital fan communities to adaptations of television show formats across cultures.

Recent publications include the monographs Environmental Management of the Media: Policy, Industry, Practice (Routledge, 2018) andNordsploitation: History, Industry, Audiences (Bloomsbury, 2020) with Tommy Gustafsson (Linnaeus University), and a film and television production studies special issue of Journal of Scandinavian Cinema.

Teaching

PhD Supervision

I currently supervise projects on environmental journalism in Brazil, fan audiences in China, nation branding through TV, environmental production practices in Finland, and co-production practices in East Asian cinemas.

Kääpä, Pietari (2020) The STEMing of Cinematic China: An Analysis of Resource Politics in Chinese and American Coproductions, in Phaedra Pezzulo and Jingfang Liu (eds.) Green Communication and China, New York: Blackwell.

Kääpä, Pietari and Hunter Vaughan (2020) "From content to context (and back again): new industrial strategies for environmental sustainability in the media", in Mette Hjort and Ted Nannicelli (eds.) Cinema and the Public Good, New York: Wiley Blackwell

Kääpä, Pietari, 2019. "Ecocritical Perspectives on Nordic Cinema From Nature Appreciation to Social Conformism", in Cannig, Laura and Lewis, Ingrid (ed.) European Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century: Discourses, Directions and Genres, Palgrave MacMillan.

Kääpä, Pietari, 2019. "Tracing Extraction in Contemporary Chinese Cinema: Tie Xi Qu and the Politics of the Resource Image", in Lu, Sheldon and Gong, Haomin (eds.) Chinese Ecocinema, New York and London: Routledge.